Walel “The Gazelle” Watson Released by UFC and other MMA News

Wednesday night was a grim night for Walel “The Gazelle” Watson as he was released by UFC. Watson was first reported to have been released on the Facebook page of the British MMA Opinion last Tuesday.

“The Gazelle” recently finished a four fight stint with UFC and was successful in the Octagon a year ago. He was able to defeat huge names like Joseph Sandoval at the UFC Live 6 in October 2011 and Ismael Leon at the UWCM 10 in June 2011. However, his career developed for the worse as he suffered one loss after the other.

After winning last year over Sandoval, he suffered a loss against Yves Jabouin at the UFC 140, against T.J. Dillashaw on UFC on Fuel TV and just recently Mitch Gagnon at UFC 152 headlining Jones vs. Belfort. He was on his knees in just a minute and 9 seconds of round one.

Currently “The Gazelle” has 9 wins and 5 losses in his career. Before his career at the UFC, he had an 8 wins and 2 losses record. He has won seven straight wins before he was defeated via a technical knockout by Cody Gibson at the Tachi Palace Fights 9 in 2011.

In other UFC and MMA news, the fighters for the World Series of Fighting’s November 3 are finally complete. This event features an 11 fight bill that will be at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Veteran UFC fighters will clash for this once in a lifetime fight; veterans like Anthony Johnson, David Branch and Waylon Lowe will face D.J. Linderman, Dustin Jacoby and Fabio Mello. The main fights will air live at the NBC Sports Network; the preliminary fights on the other hand will be streamed live at Sherdog.com.

A headliner fight between heavyweights ex – UFC champions Andrei Arlovski and IFL alum Devin Cole will also be featured. Miguel Torres, former World Extreme Cagefighting king will also be returning to the ring and will fight against Marlon Moraes, and finally, welterweights Gregor Gracie will face fellow welterweight Tyson Steele.

Undercard for the event will feature Tyrone Spong versus Travis Bartlett, Ronys Torres versus Brian Cobb, Gerald Harris versus Josh Burkham and finally Steve Carl versus Ramico Blackmon. Fans will surely find this latest MMA special as one of the much awaited and most entertaining fights before this year ends.